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COIN SPINNER.

No. 383,512. Patented May 29, 1888'.

Nrrnn STATES FRANCIS BARBER, OF WVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COIN-SPINNER.

EPECIPICATION fot'ming part of Letters Patent No. 383,512, dated May 29,1888.

Application filed March 3, 1838.

1'0 ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANCIS M. BARBER,

-of \Vashington, in the District of Columbia,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Spinners, whichimprovementis fully set forth in the following specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a device for spinning a coinor other diskshaped object, as is commonly done by hand for sport oramusement; and it consists, generally, in a holder for supporting thecoin and a striker discharging the latter from the holder and impartingto it a rotatory or spinning motion.

The invention may be embodied in many difierent forms and carried out ina variety of ways. The holder may consist of spring fingers or clamps,between which the coin is held with sufficient firmness to prevent itfalling out until struck by the striker. The latter may be a springadapted to be drawn back, and when released to strike a quick blowagainst the coin near its edge; or a rod or other intermediary may beemployed to transmit the impulse of the spring (which may be a helical,

d flat, or other form of spring) to the coin.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, isillustrated one way in which the invention may be carried into effect,Figure I being a perspective View, and Fig. II a side elevation.

The coin-spinner shown consists of a base or support, A, which in thiscase is given the form or outline of a pistol. The coin-holder, asshown, consists of two fingers, a, which may be of metal or othermaterial having sui'iicient springiness to hold the coin 1) between themwith light pressure. The striker in this i11- stance is a rod or pin, 0,actuated by a spring, cl, the forward end of the rod or pin 0 being thecoin 1) near its edge midway between the points where it is clasped bysaid holder.

The actuating spring d is bent to represent a trigger, and its endprojects beyond the sup port A in convenient position to be retracted bythe forefinger. Vhen the spring is released, its impulse is transmittedthrough the striker c to the coin, which is discharged from the holderand given a rapid spinning motion.

It will of course be understood that the particular form of the deviceis nota material part of the invention, which could obviously beembodied in a variety of forms, and that the particular means shown forholding the coin and for setting it in motion could be varied withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention 1. A coin-spinner comprising a holder and astriker for discharging the coin from the holder and giving it aspinning motion, substantially as described.

2. A coinspinner comprising, in combination, a holder and aspring-actuated striker adapted to strike the coin near its edge Whilein said holder, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the spring holdingfingers for clasping a coin atopposite points on its periphery and a spring-actuated striker forstriking the coin near its edge and midway between the holdingfingers,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

F. M. BARBER.

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